This isn't even getting into the epistemological problems and other philosophical issues of science of which 99% of the science-worshipping plebs are totally unaware. If it's not producing immediately-testable technology, most of it may as well be cam-whoring. They get paid to spin stories to "make sense" of carefully-selected data and then have a circle jerk over it, winning prestige in their self-created societies and maybe even in the world at large.
Look at Polaris. We can't even get a true distance measurement from a nearby star. We really don't know interstellar distances as much as the public is led to believe.
This isn't even getting into the epistemological problems and other philosophical issues of science of which 99% of the science-worshipping plebs are totally unaware. If it's not producing immediately-testable technology, most of it may as well be cam-whoring. They get paid to spin stories to "make sense" of carefully-selected data and then have a circle jerk over it, winning prestige in their self-created societies and maybe even in the world at large.
Look at Polaris. We can't even get a true distance measurement from a nearby star. We really don't know interstellar distances as much as the public is led to believe.